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Anne Mason
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Anne Mason was born in Lincolnshire and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and The National Opera Studio. She made her operatic debut with Opera North singing Fenena Nabucco and subsequently has sung with Royal Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Kent Opera, English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Holland Park, Chelsea Opera Group, Teatro Real, Madrid, Liceu, Barcelona, Netherlands Opera, Aix-en Provence Festival, Innsbruck Early Music Festival, Dresden Semperoper, Opéra de Lille, Orleans Opera, Nantes/Angers Opera and De Vlaamse Opera. She also has a wide concert repertoire and has sung with LSO, Halle Orchestra, LPO, RPO and English Chamber Orchestra and with conductors Nicholas McGegan, Sir Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
She has sung a wide repertoire of roles including Suzuki Madama Butterfly, Annina Der Rosenkavalier, Enrichetta I Puritani, Mother/Witch Hänsel und Gretel, Guinevere Gawain and the Green Knight, Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro, Fenena Nabucco, Adalgisa Norma, Sextus La Clemenza di Tito, title role and Cornelia Giulio Cesare, Fricka Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Kostelnicka Jenufa, Kabanicha Kat'a Kabanová, Azucena Il Trovatore, Minsk woman Flight, Penelope Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, title role Maria Stuarda, Agnes Beatrice di Tenda, and The Duchess of York in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Richard III.
Her recordings include Marcellina with Bernard Haitink for EMI, Candida in Donizetti’s Emilia di Liverpool and Ismene in Simon Mayr’s Medea for Opera Rara and Azucena Il Trovatore for Chandos with David Parry. On DVD she appeared as Helen King Priam for Kent Opera and in Channel 4’s’ Death Of A Princess written by Jonathan Dove. She recently performed the world premiere of All our future days, a song cycle by Jonathan Dove which was composed specifically for her.
Recent engagements include Kostelnicka Jenufa for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Mrs Alexander Satyagraha for English National Opera and Génèvieve Pelléas et Mélisande for Opera Holland Park.
Future engagements include Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress for Opéra de Lille, Larina Eugene Onegin for Opera Holland Park, Jezibaba Rusalka for Glyndebourne on Tour and Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro for Glyndebourne Festival.
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